The Interfraternity Council elected officers to its remaining vacant positions during a President’s Council meeting Wednesday evening. The Committee on Risk Management was also asked to take on new duties in response to the treatment of alcohol violations of four fraternities that resulted in the resignation of former president Andrew T. Yue ’03.

An agreement late Wednesday night ended the four-week strike by Boston janitors, effectively canceling plans for city-wide acts of civil disobedience planned for yesterday. MIT students expected to join with around 2,000 striking workers and other community members to push for higher wages and health care coverage for part-time janitors.

Ben Mezrich, the author of Bringing Down the House:The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, discussed his newest book and held a book signing at Coffeehouse last night. He described his interaction with this covert team of gamblers.

Susumu Tonegawa, the Director of the Picower Center of Learning and Memory, expressed a departmental need for the building. “Our department is trying to be the best in the world [in this field of study] for coming decades,” he said. “In order to be the best, one thing we definitely need is the new facility that the neuroscientist and the brain scientist can work close together. Now, our laboratories are relatively scattered. We need to put all neuroscience and brain science researchers under one roof.”